Shivira got their new logo design by running a design contest:

IERS (Industrial Ecology Research Services) needs an awesome logo

Check out Shivira's Logo design contest…

The Brief

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Environmental

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About us

We are a sustainability consulting firm specializing in the use of Industrial Ecology tools. At IERS, we aim at helping our clients reduce their overall environmental impact using available sustainability measurement and reporting tools. We assess enterprise and product wide sustainability of our client businesses by providing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) services using different approaches, one a more conventional and detail oriented method called the process-based LCA and another, a less specific but broader in coverage method called the hybrid approach. More information on Life cycle assessment can be found here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_assessment
We also offer carbon and water footprinting packages and work extensively on technical database management projects. Our solutions not only improve environmental performances and increase systems efficiency but also translate into cost-savings for our clients.

The Brief

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Other notes

We would really like to see designs based upon logo ideas as seen in this great link - http://www.communicationagency.com/
(We like most of the examples here and especially ones with acronyms in gray color and the top left corner or top right corners of the acronym having a picture of connected or not connected squares that depicts databases)
Also, the full name of our company need not be in the logo name.
A few keywords that represent our sustainability consulting business and which we would in some way like to see incorporated within the designed logo are;
Database (can also be depicted as a cylindrical stack as shown in the Lucid DB logo design or as horizontal bars)
IT technology
Sustainability
Ecology
Systems
Reliability and scalability
Life Cycle thinking
We want a clean and sophisticated looking logo, not boring, not amateurish, something mature that conveys the technicality as well as the environmental significance and importance of our work.
The logo should express 'technical' or 'database' incorporated into a design that portrays an element of 'sustainability'.
We are hoping for a simple image such as the pre consultants logo attached to the brief - with our name as a part of it or within it, that conveys the purpose of our work.
Need the cleanness of a corporate logo - something professional looking, can be abstract.
Please do not restrain yourself to the Word mark logo type, we also would love to see samples of Pictorial or Abstract mark logos!
Additional information that might help in understanding the demographics of our company's target audience - Our clientele is spread across the globe, we have clients based in Europe, Chile, Mexico apart from the United States and we have worked with numerous clients both in industry and the government. Our industry clients include some of the largest companies in the oil and gas, food and agriculture, and chemical sectors, as well as building material and windows manufacturers. Among the Public Sector, we have worked with the U.S. EPA, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), Portland State University, Stockholm Environment Institute at York.
Goodluck!

$295 Bronze package

Every design category has flexible pricing for all budgets. Logo design starts at $299.

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It all began with a design brief.

A quick, interactive guide helped them understand their design style and captured exactly what they needed in their logo design.

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A contest allows you to open your design brief to our global community of creative designers. Designers submit concepts based on your needs and you pick your favorite as the winner.

Every design category has flexible pricing for all budgets. Logo design starts at $299.

Designers across the globe delivered design magic.

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winner

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And then… they selected a winner!

Client review

Redesigning our logo and the appearance of our name after 30 years. We provided samples of designs we like and she got it from the moment we started. Her design was simple and straightforward yet very modern. Kana was easy to work with, responded to changes quickly and followed direction very well.

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